[libvirt] [PATCH] news: Update for 5.7.0 release

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 02:26:23PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-09-03 at 14:09 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  docs/news.xml | 133 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 133 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
> > index 0c79765fd0..f95af0f0e9 100644
> > --- a/docs/news.xml
> > +++ b/docs/news.xml
> > @@ -50,6 +50,30 @@
> [...]
> > +        <summary>
> > +          Split libvirtd into separate daemons
> > +        </summary>
> > +        <description>
> > +          The big monolithic libvirtd daemon can now be replaced by smaller
> > +          per-driver daemons. Distributions can chose if they want the former
> > +          or the latter. The libvirtd is still kept around for backwards
> > +          compatibility.
> 
> We might want to point out that things like SELinux support and
> identity passing are not implemented yet, so distributions will
> probably want to hold off using the split daemons by default for a
> little while longer... Dan?

Yep, the traditional libvirtd is stil the default.

We should say that the split daemons are "experimental" at this
stage. 


> > +        <summary>
> > +          Stop linking virt-login-shell and NSS plugins with libvirt.so
> > +        </summary>
> > +        <description>
> > +          In order to allow libvirt abort on out of memory, we need to stop
> > +          link libvirt.so to virt-login-shell or the NSS plugins where we don't
> 
> In order to allow libvirt to abort on out of memory, we need to stop
> linking...

I would not mention OOM abort here, since that's not in this version.

I'd just say that we have simiplified the dependancies of these two
parts to make them self-contained. For the NSS plugin this reduces
amount of code & 3rd party libs loaded into every process For the
login shell this makes the thing simpler to audit for security.


Regards,
Daniel
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